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A Life's Morning

George Gissing

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A Life's Morning

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This is the story of a poor young lady Emily Hood who while working as a governess falls in love with Wilfrid Athel the son of her employer. They become engaged, however things do not run smoothly after a visit home to her parents and Emily has to make a heartbreaking choice.
inward soul,' which, if it grew to be her conviction, was greatly—perhaps wholly—dependent on the perception of external beauty. The development of beauty in the soul would mean a life of ideal purity; all her instincts pointed to such a life; her passionate motives converged on the one end of spiritual chastity.

One ever-present fear she had to strive with in her progress toward serene convictions. The misery of her parents' home haunted her, and by no effort could she expel the superstition that she had only escaped from that for a time, that its claws would surely overtake her and fix themselves again in her flesh. Analysing her own nature, she discerned, or thought she did, a lack of independent vigour; it seemed as if she were too reliant on external circumstances; she dreaded what might follow if their assistance were withdrawn. To be sure she had held her course through the countless discouragements of early years; but that, in looking back, seemed no assurance for the future; her courage, it appeared to her, had been of the unconscious kind, and might fail her when she consciously demanded it. As a child she had once walked in her sleep, had gone forth from the house, and had, before she was awakened, crossed the narrow footing of a canal-lock, a thing her nervousness would not allow her to do at other times. This became to her a figure. The feat she had performed when mere vital instinct guided her, she would have failed in when attempting it with the full understanding of its danger. Suppose something happened which put an end to her independence—failure of health, some supreme calamity at home—could she hold on in the way of salvation? Was she capable of conscious heroism? Could her soul retain its ideal of beauty if environed by ugliness?

The vice of her age—nay, why call it a vice?—the necessary issue of that intellectual egoism which is the note of our time, fou

Mbuye 10/28/2023
George Gissing, more than almost any contemporary writer, bridged the distance between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In his observation of, not just human nature, but the world around us, he is as keen-eyed as any of the great Victorians. In his rejection of sentimentality, he rivals any t
Ian 10/07/2017
I have read several of Gissing's books and I think this is the one that i have found most personally stirring and moving. He transcends cynicism and is prepared to sympathetically depict characters who are idealistic and unselfish, even when they become exposed to the world's harsher material realit
Ghaggard 11/22/2015
Not the powerful book that New Grub Street is. Still full of Gissing's insights into the social and economic issues of his time.
Diane 09/12/2013
Pick up most of Gissing's early books and within two chapters
you are plunged into a sometimes nightmarish world of poverty
and drama - but not this one. "A Life's Morning" explores the
world of a young governess, Emily Hood, who captures the eye
of Wilfred Athel who is recuperating after a nervous brea

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